Device for buttoning collars.



110,878,598; PATENTED FEB/11, 1908.

' F. BAILEY. DEVICE FOR BUTTONING UOLLARS.

APPLICATION FILED APR.20.190'7.

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FRANK BAILEY, OF HOBOKEN, NEW JERSEY.

DEVICE FOR BUTTONING COLLARS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Feb. 1 1, 1908.

Application filed April 20, 1907. Serial No. 369.330.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRANK BAILEY, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Hoboken, in the county of Hudson and State of devices, and particularly to devices of this class designed for use in connecting one end of a collar with the front collar button after the other end of said collar has been connected therewith; and the object of the invention is to provide a device of this class which is simple in construction and which may be conveniently operated either in connection with turn-down or standing collars.

The inventionis fully disclosed in the following specification, of which the acccompanying drawing forms a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which:

Figure 1 is a view showing the method of using my improved collar buttoning device; Fig. 2 a view similar to Fig. 1 but showing the buttoning device in a difierent position; Fig. 3 a sectional side view of the buttoning device; Fig. 4 a view of one end portion of said device at ri ht angles to the view shown in Fig. 3; and, Iig. 5 a section onthe line 5-5 of Fig. 3.

In the practice of my invention, I provide a device of the class specified which comprises a handle member (1,, preferably composed of wood, but which may be composed of any desired material and which is tapered from one end to the other, and the larger end of which is provided with a reduced extension a forming an angular shoulder a on which or to which is secured, in any desired manner, a short tube or sleeve 1). The handle portion a is preferably elliptical in cross section as shown in Fig. 5 and the end portion of the tube or sleeve 1) adjacent to the shoulder a is also preferably elliptical in cross section, but the outer end portion of the tube or sleeve 5 is preferably circular in form and one side of said last named end portion is cut off at an inclination as shown at b to form an opening which communicates with the interior of the said tube or sleeve 1), and one-half of the outer end portion of the tube or sleeve 1) is closed and provided centrally with a segmental recess b forming a segmental flange 6 It is a well known fact that one end of a collar, whether it be a turn-down or a standing collar, may be easily connected with .the front collar button, but it is difiicult, as a rule, to connect the other end of the collar with said button, and in Figs. 1 and 2 of the drawing, I have shown the method of manipulating my im roved buttoning device in order to accomp ish this result. In Fig. 1 of the drawing, one end d -of the collar (1 has been connected with the collar button, and, in practice, the shank or handle a of my improved collar buttoning device is passed through the button-hole in the end d of the collar from the inner side outwardly, until the annular shoulder (1 passes through said button-hole. The device is then manipulated so as to pass the head of the button through the opening at 6 into the tube or sleeve 1) and the buttoning device is then swung over to the right as indicatedin Fig. 2. In this operation the shank of the button enters the recess 6 and the flange or rim 6 at the end of the tube or sleeve 1) in which the recess 12 is formed engages the head of the button and the latter is drawn through the button-hole in the end (1 of the collar. The head of the collar button is shown ate in Fig. 2, and in the above described operation the collar buttoning device is ressed backwardly so that the segmental ange b at the end of the sleeve or tube 1) engages the head of the button and draws it through the button-hole in the end (i of the collar as will be readily understood.

Although, I have described the shank or handle member a as preferably composed of wood, the entire device may be composed'of sheet metal or any other suitable material, and while the annular shoulder a is not absolutely essential it aids in the operation of the devices and prevents the end d of the collar from slipping on the shankof the buttoning device in the manipulation of the latter as hereinbefore described.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

A collar button pered shank'or handle portion the larger end of which is elliptical in cross section, said larger end bein provided with a tube or sleeve which is a so elli tical in cross section and one side portion. 0 which is cut out at device, comprising a tamy invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 18th 10 v day of April 1907.

FRANK BAILEY.

Witnesses:

O. E. MULREANY, A. WORDEN GIBB. 

